 The Fingering Forum
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Author: Justin
Date: 2002-12-07 01:58
I am not a beginner because I have played the saxaphone for 3 years in junior high but it was like 7 years ago. Do you think I can consider myself an intermediate player? I do know all the fingerings.
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-12-07 03:54
How do intermediate players spell saxophone?
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Author: oboeguy
Date: 2002-12-07 04:32
An "intermediate" amateur(meaning grade 11-12 high school-1st year college) player should be able to play All major scales, and all of their relative harmonic, melodic, and natural minors. You should be able to play grade 4 concert band/jazz band music. Grade 4 and up for solo saxophone is a good place to be considered "intermediate". Most "advanced intermediates"(i.e. undergraduate university level) will play at least grade 7 music, and most 4th years can easily play grade 10. Professionals play music far beyond this level.
In my concert band, we usually play grade 4-5, and I compete at a level 6, so I would consider myself an intermediate.
Not that you don't know fingerings or anything, but when I see people that say that they're "intermediate" and have to look up fingerings...that's sad. I don't even think about what fingerings go with which note, it's automatic.
Later!
Oboeguy
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Author: sÖmeone
Date: 2002-12-07 10:01
i agree so much with you......haha.....
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2002-12-07 22:35
What's this Grade 10? I thought the music grades stopped at 8 being the bset?
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Author: oboeguy
Date: 2002-12-08 03:14
It depends where you are but, anything in music can be up to level 10, it just usually happens that not many composers write specifically graded pieces that high. I know many piano students that compete level 10. There is also a category for "solo Grade 10 oboe" at the fall festival where I live.
Oboeguy
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2002-12-15 06:30
Just out of curiosity, what are some of the pieces that I might recognize out of the Grade 10 oboe stuff?
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Author: dani roe
Date: 2002-12-19 00:13
dear Justin,
I have not been In saxophone for many years, but I do have an opinion to your prob. I and my band leader say you are an Imediatplayer!
thank you,
Dani Roe!
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2002-12-19 06:05
Ok I'll give you my honest answer without making some quip remark. I think it will help you.
First of all, my question to you is, are you intermediate with respect to what? There's a lot more to making music on a wind instrument than just knowing the fingerings. Can you get all the notes out with these fingerings? How good is your tone? Your dynamic range? Your control over your instrument? Your intonation? The list goes on and on.
If you're talking intermediate with respect to grade K-12 school players, then if you can answer some of these in the affirmative then yes I would call you an intermediate level player within that range.
But with respect to the entire saxophone world, it may be a different story. To give you an idea, the really really good saxophonists you'll hear in high school bands (who would be at the top of the list in the range above) are what I would consider on the low-intermediate echelon of saxophone playing. If you sound like them, then in this range you are an intermediate-level player.
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